Patrick Sims-Williams (Aberystwyth University of Wales)

Broschiertes Buch

The Celtic Inscriptions of Britain

Phonology and Chronology, C. 400-1200

Beschreibung

First comprehensive study for 50 years of the stones from western Britain and Brittany, inscribed in the Roman and Irish Ogam alphabets. Provides a linguistic analysis of the 370 Brittonic and Irish inscriptions. Presents new phonological evidence for the dating of the inscriptions. .

Autor

Patrick Sims-Williams is Professor of Celtic Studies at the University of Wales, Aberystwyth. He is the author of 'Religion and Literature in Western England, 600-800' (1990) and 'Britain and Early Christian Europe' (1995). He is also the co-editor of 'Ptolemy: Towards a Linguistic Atlas of the Earliest Celtic Place-Names of Europe' (2000), and the editor of Cambrian Medieval Celtic Studies.

Produktdetails

• Publications of the Philological Society
• Verlag: Blackwell Publishers
• Seitenzahl: 480
• Erscheinungstermin: 21. März 2003
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 149mm x 224mm x 28mm
• Gewicht: 750g
• ISBN-13: 9781405109031
• ISBN-10: 1405109033
• Artikelnr.: 13735087

Rezensionen

"[Sims-Williams s] concern is to give due weight to all the possibilities rather than to rush into one attractive interpretation. This will make the book extremely valuable as a restraining influence on the rasher tendencies of other scholars. The Celtic Inscriptions of Britain is a major achievement in Celtic historical linguistics and will be an indispensible work of reference for many years to come."
Antiquity

"( Celtic Inscriptions of Britain ) represents an invaluable contribution to its field."
Cumbrian Medieval Celtic Studies